In 21st Century Burning Bushes, Volume III: Culture, Society, and Morality, Dr. Setrag Khoshafian turns the central image of the series-Moses turning aside to behold a bush that burned but was not consumed-toward the most unsettling cultural and spiritual phenomena of our day. After exploring the spiritual realm in Volume I and the frontiers of science and technology in Volume II, this third and most challenging volume confronts the "Burning Bushes" of a civilization in moral and spiritual upheaval, asking what the Creator is saying to a world that has largely stopped turning aside to look.
The volume opens with the Burning Bush of Woke and Social Justice. Khoshafian writes with deliberate balance: he affirms that Scripture commands genuine compassion for the poor, the widow, the orphan, and the foreigner, and recounts how revival and social reform once went hand in hand-from Charles Finney and the abolitionists to William Seymour and the racially integrated Azusa Street revival. Yet he traces what theologian David Moberg called "the Great Reversal," in which justice was severed from the gospel and recast in Marxist, critical-theory terms. The result, he argues, is a Woke and Cancel Culture that is often implicitly anti-Christian, and he calls believers back to a justice rooted in the Word and balanced by moral purity-what he frames throughout the series as "Point, Counterpoint, God-Point."
From there the book moves through the Burning Bush of Moral Decadence-genocide and ethnic cleansing, wars and civil wars, abortion, corruption, the erosion of family, sexual immorality, child trafficking, and the LGBTQIA+ and transgender agendas-naming the decay candidly while refusing despair. The Burning Bush of the New Age exposes a movement Khoshafian once dabbled in himself before coming to Christ: its prohibited practices, its blend of Eastern mysticism, Gnosticism, and the occult, and its quiet infiltration of the Church, illustrated through the words of New Age voices and the testimonies of converts like Doreen Virtue. The Burning Bush of Secret Societies and One World Order reaches back to Nimrod and Babylon's mystery religion and forward to globalist ambitions, the Great Reset, and the dystopian warnings of Huxley and Orwell, discerning in them the long shadow of the coming Antichrist.
Then Khoshafian turns the mirror on the Church itself in the Burning Bush of Christian Hypocrisy and Apostasy. With personal honesty-citing the fall of figures like Ravi Zacharias and grounding his hope in Francis Schaeffer's exposition of Romans 6-8-he examines Christian hypocrisy, violence, division, scandal, deconstruction, and apostasy across Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, and evangelical traditions, never excusing the Church but always pointing to the true spirituality of dying and rising with Christ.
Finally, after these heavy warnings, the book lifts the reader's eyes upward in the Burning Bush of God's Kingdom and His Angels. Here Khoshafian unfolds his most hopeful vision: the eternal King who reigns over the seen and unseen, the "upside-down Kingdom" that inverts the values of a fallen world, the glorious throne of God, and the reality of angels-seraphim and cherubim, Gabriel and Michael, the fallen angels, and modern angelic encounters. He closes with the promise of a renewed heaven and earth where redeemed humanity dwells forever with God and His angelic hosts.
Every chapter ends not in alarm but in practical recommendations-a summons to awaken, to discern, and to live faithfully. Drawing on Scripture, church history, contemporary events, and his own journey, Dr. Khoshafian offers a volume that is at once a sober diagnosis of our times and a confident proclamation that the answer to every cultural fire is the in-breaking reign of God: a beautiful revolution, and a Kingdom that cannot be shaken.
Dr. Khoshafian (aka Dr. Set) is a recognized expert in Digital Transformation as well as AI-powered platforms with over 25 years of experience as a senior executive in the software industry. He is the lead author of more than 10 digital technology books and hundreds of publications in business and academic journals. His most recent technical book is titled How to Alleviate Digital Transformation Debt: post-COVID-19. Throughout his career, Dr. Set has served as a lecturer and professor at several universities. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MSc in Mathematics from AUB. Dr. Set has been active in various ministries and congregations in the Middle East and the United States. He has given seminars on contemporary topics relevant to the Christian message and witness. Dr. Set has been a full-time and adjunct Computer Science professor in various universities around the world.In 2007, Dr. Set Khoshafian and other visionary collaborators pioneered the world's first Armenian Christian Internet Radio station, Bashde. Since, it has been extended to Persian, Arabic, French, and Turkish radio stations.Recently, he has been focusing on the difficult questions facing 21st-century Christianity and the world in general including Societal trends, Revivals, the Supernatural, real vs. pseudo-science, UFO/UAP Disclosures, Miracles, Revivals, Ancient Artifacts, Secret Societies, Supernatural, Transhumanism, the Antichrist, the Singularity, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Automation, Quantum Mechanics, Digitization, Biotechnology, New Age trends, the Problem of Pain, One World Religion & Government-to name a few. All these and their intricate interrelationships are addressed in the 21st Century Burning Bushes book series (four volumes).
